Fantasy, Forgery and Byron Legend - Tapa dura

Soderholm, James

 
9780813119397: Fantasy, Forgery and Byron Legend
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ISBN 10: 0813119391 ISBN 13: 9780813119397
Editorial: The University Press of Kentucky, 1995

Sinopsis

" Byron was-to echo Wordsworth-half-perceived and half-created. He would have affirmed Jean Baudrillard's observation that "to seduce is to die to reality and reconstitute oneself as illusion." But among the readers he seduced, in person and in poetry, were women possessed of vivid imaginations who collaborated with him in fashioning his legend. Accused of "treating women harshly," Byron acknowledged: "It may be so-but I have been their martyr. My whole life has been sacrificed to them and by them." Those whom he spell bound often returned the favor in their own writings tried to remake his public image to reflect their own. Through writings both well known and generally unknown, James Soderholm examines the poet's relationship with five women: Elizabeth Pigot, Caroline Lamb, Annabella Milbanke, Teresa Guiccioli, and Marguerite Blessington. These women participated in Byron's life and literary career and the manipulation of images that is the Byron legend. Soderholm argues against the sentimental depictions of biographers who would preserve Byron's romantic aura by diminishing the contributions of these women to his social, sexual, and literary identity. By restoring the contexts in which literary works charm or bedevil particular readers, the author shows the consequences of Byron's poetic seductions during and after his life.

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Acerca del autor

James Soderholm is assistant professor of English at the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee.

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Byron was - to echo Wordsworth - half-perceived and half-created. He would have affirmed Jean Baudrillard's observation that "to seduce is to die to reality and reconstitute oneself as illusion". But among the readers he seduced, in person and in poetry, were women possessed of vivid imaginations who collaborated with him in fashioning his legend. Accused of "treating women harshly", Byron acknowledged: "It may be so - but I have been their martyr. My whole life has been sacrificed to them and by them". Those whom he spellbound often returned the favor and in their own writings tried to remake his public image to reflect their own. Through writings both well known and generally unknown, Soderholm examines the poet's relationship with five women: Elizabeth Pigot, Caroline Lamb, Annabella Milbanke, Teresa Guiccioli, and Marguerite Blessington. These women participated in Byron's life and literary career and the manipulation of images that is the Byron legend. Soderholm argues against the sentimental depictions of biographers who would preserve Byron's romantic aura by diminishing the contributions of these women to his social, sexual, and literary identity. By restoring the contexts in which literary works charm or bedevil particular readers, the author shows the consequences of Byron's poetic seductions during and after his life.

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Editorial
The University Press of Kentucky
Año de publicación
1995
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0813119391
ISBN 13 
9780813119397
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Número de páginas
208
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